POLI 1001 Lecture : POLI 1001 NOTES 20160907
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Axial age: (very controversial introduction to this age. Many disagree with this and say it spanned a much longer time period) Yaspurs - from about 800 bce to 200 bce, something happened in every human culture. Yaspurs contends that this gave rise to all the major religions of the world. Three categories exist: epistemology knowing, the science of knowing, empiricism we know through our senses. Is our rationality always connected to our self-interests: ethics standards of conduct. Values of right and wrong, justice: deontological rules, systems of ethics that are essentially rules of conduct for which. Example: the 10 commandments: consequentialist consequences of our actions, not the intentions, virtue ethics we don"t ask if we followed the rule or obey the consequences. How could it be without something there being permanent and non-changing. Theorizes that everything in nature is composed of tiny building blocks called atoms. This approach is called materialism because it contains matter.
